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Concerns are growing among EU banks about the risks they face in relation to cyber and data security, according to the European Banking Authority (EBA).

Project companies should be putting contingency plans in place to deal with the compulsory liquidation of a contractor, as happened with Carillion.

The recent passing of the 'Renewables Law' is set to turn China into a global heavyweight in the future development of the renewable energy sector.

The European Commission has been urged to rethink how it plans to ensure that businesses in the payment services market have equal access to the customer account data they need to provide services those customers have requested.

The recent Advocate-General's Opinion in Manfredi promises to fuel the debate in the UK over the range of remedies claimable by third parties in respect of loss caused to them by an unlawful agreement or concerted practice. For the purpose of this discussion it does not matter whether or not third parties are in a contractual relationship with the competition law infringers.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) is now well-established and positively encouraged in all suitable cases. On 23 March 2001 the former Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, pledged that Government Departments will go to court only as a last resort and that Government legal disputes will be settled by mediation or arbitration whenever possible.

Probably one of the most subjective areas of trade mark law is the question of when are two trade marks confusing similar. Whether one trade mark will be confused with another is dependent on a number of factors; the sound of the respective marks, the visual impression of the marks, the conceptual meaning of the marks and the type of goods or services to which the trade marks are applied, amongst many other factors.

In a previous article, "Legal Advice Privilege - Has the House of Lords calmed troubled waters?"* we reported that the House of Lords had overturned the Court of Appeal's restrictive analysis of legal advice privilege in the <I>Three Rivers' </I>litigation.

In one of those cases that will be remembered for its name, <I>Junk</I>, long after the precise decision has been forgotten, the European Court of Justice has ruled that notice of dismissal for redundancy can only be given once the consultation process with workers' representatives has been concluded. The Collective Redundancies Directive is applied in UK law by the obligation to consult representatives of the workforce in good time, and at least 30 or 90 days before the first redundancy tak

ANALYSIS: Trustees of occupational pension schemes must now comply with additional record-keeping and disclosure duties under new money laundering regulations, or risk fines.

Under the Working Time Regulations, workers are entitled to 4 weeks paid holiday per year. Recent case-law has made it clear that ‘worker’ is a very wide category and individuals who have traditionally been thought of as self-employed may fall within it, giving them rights to holiday pay.

Two years ago the Court of Appeal in <I>Sutherland v Hatton </I>confirmed that to succeed in a negligence claim for damages for injury to health caused by stress at work, an employee must establish not just causation (which requires clear medical evidence), but also foreseeability of injury, and a failure to take practical steps to alleviate the risk. The Court also emphasised that the threshold for bringing a successful claim was high. Now in <I>Barber v Somerset </I>the House of Lords has give

ANALYSIS: Consultations on the extension of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) to the entire insurance sector close on 3 November.

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 highlighted deficiencies in applying the "normal" corporate administration regime to investment banks, in particular in protecting client assets.

Two recent Court of Appeal cases have examined the circumstances in which employers can incur liability for advice to employees. There are many situations in which employees are faced with a range of options: to retire early, perhaps on ill health grounds, or take redundancy and seek another job, or continue at work on sick pay… Tax, benefits, and pension implications all have to be considered.